Superdeporte reporting that they've come to an agreement for €45 million on Otamendi.
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Jose changes his tune that many times he doesn't know what he's whistling. I remember him moaning about diving and time wasting! Yet Porto and Inter Milan were experts at this under him. It's getting to the point nobody takes what he says seriously, just like last time in England everybody will get fed up of him and he will leave for a new league.
So again I ask how City can spend like this? Over £100m spent on an already super expensive squad. And that's before they buy De Bruyne for another £50m.
Why don't Chelsea, United, Arsenal, PSG etc just go mad and spend freely if FFP is now pretty much a non-factor?
Why don't Chelsea, United, Arsenal, PSG etc just go mad and spend freely if FFP is now pretty much a non-factor?
Because ffp is still a factor and if they are not careful they will regret it.
I'm asking this as well. No matter how you look at it, it's taking the piss really.
Do City look like they care? They're a club who were actually penalized for infringement and they're spending absurd amounts. Clearly they don't feel like anything will happen to them.
It's simple, they sell out their ground every week (even when they're not playing at home) they have massive sponsorships thanks to their World class commercial team. They've won the Champions League three times in the last five years and celebrated such a triumph by placing three stars above their badge.
11 pages since I last checked last night - someone somewhere must have changed clubs - err No!
Until something happens to them, I think that they interpreted the lift of the bans as an encouragement to spend, like PSG. But in the agreement they signed in 2014, it was stipulated that the ban could be lifted if they clean their finances, which was the case for both.
We're spending what we can afford to spend. We'll comply with FFP regulations this season.
We did last year and it didn't turn out great. This year we've signed players we need and by all accounts are prepared to break the bank for Müller, just that Bayern won't sell him.
Because they haven't spent 100m, that's how. Sterling's fee was with a bunch of add ons, Valencia still owe City money for Negredo - I wouldn't be surprised if City wrote off the money for Negredo and added it as part of the fee for Otamendi.
Sky News repeating what Sky Sports have said.
Pedro agreed terms with us. Ballbag has already said this a million times.
Pedro agreed terms with us. Ballbag has already said this a million times.
Otamendi to have City medical.
All three bids been different values. £20m, £26m now £30m
Because your team and my team both have pathetic sponsorship deals, and we're not as big as the massive club that is Mancheter City with their sold-out stadium and totally legitimate sponsors such as Not-Sheik Investments and Not-Sheik Inc.
Was talking about wages rather than transfer fee. Stones won't be on what shaw is.
Ffp restrictions been lifted.
United get £75m a year from Adidas for kit sponsorship alone. Etihad pay City £40m a year and that covers plenty more than just kit.
United and Arsenal can't just go mad because they are spending their own generated money, so there's a natural limit there - go beyond that and they'd need to take on debt which will eventually have to be paid back. City, Chelsea and PSG have no such limit as it's their owners' money being spent, and they are all multi-billionaires playing games in a sport where even the biggest real clubs don't spend more than ~£150m in a summer.
FFP failed when UEFA accepted the sponsorship shams that City and PSG invented to make their figures look better - if UEFA had taken a strong hand with them then I'd guess the FFP position of both clubs would be very different.
it didn't fail with PSG and City at all. FFP was brought in to stop clubs spending more they they have and getting into massive trouble financially. There's no chance of that with City and PSG.
What were you doing the day we announced the Adidas deal?
I really hope there is something going on with Larporta
That's all we need a failed presidential candidate.Come on!
Not sure what we're like with Mendes anymore either, with DDG going and us not moving on Otamendi, we may be cutting ties with him?
I have been told Mendes has bought some of the right to Laporte but he isn't his agent.
I can't see De Gea leaving now. United would look like the biggest mugs in the world.
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